Quit the group?
At exactly six o'clock the next morning, a soft but penetrating electronic reminder sound rang out on time.
Lu Yu turned over in his sleep, half asleep and half awake, when he heard a slight noise from the bed across from him. It was Sun Rui. He had already turned off the alarm clock, sat up quietly, fumbled to put on his headphones, and began to wash up for the new day.
Almost at the same time, Shi Guang, who was standing next to Lu Yu, also opened his eyes. He didn't get up immediately, but just lay quietly, looking at the white ceiling, as if trying to let his soul catch up with the rhythm of his body's awakening.
By the time Lu Yu was violently awakened by his own alarm clock at 7:30, he was the only one left in the dormitory, along with Fatty Jiang, who was still yelling "Demacia" in his sleep. Sun Rui and Shi Guang's beds were both neatly made, as if they had never been slept in.
"Oh my god, each one is curlier than the other." Lu Yu scratched his messy hair and couldn't help muttering.
He had finished washing up and was chewing on a piece of bread when his phone dinged. In the class group, counselor Zhou Sisi sent a notification.
@All students, two weeks of military training begin tomorrow! Please prepare the essentials in advance: sunscreen (high-strength!), sweat-absorbing insoles, a large water bottle, insect repellent spray, and some sunstroke prevention medication. These are available at the school supermarket, so feel free to purchase them yourself. [Go for it!]
As soon as the notice came out, the group was filled with wailing.
Lu Yu suddenly had an idea and opened the WeChat group "602's Bizarre Adventure." He had changed the name yesterday because the original name, "602 Family," was criticized by Jiang Xiaopang as too tacky. Jiang Xiaopang's suggestion of "602 Never Turning Off the Lights" was rejected by Sun Rui, who argued it would affect sleep and reduce learning efficiency. In the end, Lu Yu chose this compromise name.
He sent a message out.
Lu Yu: @Everyone, have you seen the instructor's notice? If you have nothing to do this afternoon, let's go to the supermarket together.
Fat Jiang: Got it! Brother Lu, wait for me. I'll go right after I finish this fight! I have to buy the biggest bottle of sunscreen. I can't let my fair skin get tanned!
Sun Rui: My schedule shows that I'll be memorizing English vocabulary from 3:00 to 5:00 PM. My calculations show that the shopping trip will take about an hour, and the round trip will take half an hour, for a total of an hour and a half, which is acceptable.
Lu Yu looked at the responses from the two funny people, smiled, and finally turned his gaze to the avatar that remained silent from beginning to end. He knew that Shi Guang must have seen it, but he probably wouldn't respond actively.
Lu Yu got out of bed, walked to Shi Guang's desk, and gently tapped on the edge of his desk.
Shi Guang was wearing headphones and sketching something on a piece of paper. He took off one of his headphones and raised his head, a hint of inquiry in his clear eyes.
"Let's go to the supermarket together?" Lu Yu waved his phone. "Let's buy things for military training so you don't have to go there alone."
He specifically emphasized the point of "saving trouble", and he guessed that time would buy into it.
Sure enough, Shi Guang glanced at his empty desk, and seemed to weigh in his mind the trouble of going out alone and the social consumption of group action. After a few seconds, he nodded slightly.
"good."
The supermarket on Jiangcheng University's campus is comparable to a medium-sized shopping mall. In the afternoon, it is packed with freshmen buying supplies for military training.
Fat Jiang took the lead, pushing a shopping cart and rushing to the snack section with a clear goal. Sun Rui, holding a list, went straight to the daily necessities section, as if completing a rigorous scientific experiment.
Lu Yu and Shi Guang followed slowly behind.
"You need to buy sunscreen with a higher strength," Lu Yu naturally picked up a bottle of SPF50+ spray and put it into the shopping cart pushed by Shi Guang. "You have fair skin and you get sunburned easily."
Shi Guang paused in pushing the cart, looked at the sunscreen in the cart, then looked at Lu Yu's calm profile. His lips moved, but in the end he didn't say anything, just said "hmm".
Walking to the shelf selling insoles, Lu Yu picked up two pairs of thick military training insoles and threw them into the car: "I need to prepare two more pairs of these to absorb sweat, otherwise my feet will easily get blisters."
He acted so naturally, like an experienced senior taking care of a junior who knew nothing, making it impossible to refuse him.
When passing by a small shelf selling daily necessities, the pace of time suddenly stopped.
Lu Yu followed his gaze and found that he was staring at a small object in the corner of the shelf. It was a palm-sized unglazed ceramic vase, without any glaze or pattern. It was just a simple bottle with rounded lines, revealing a quiet Zen feeling.
"Do you like this?" Lu Yu leaned over and asked in a low voice.
Shi Guang seemed to be startled by him, quickly looked away and shook his head.
"It's pretty." Lu Yu seemed not to notice his refusal. He reached out and took the small vase down, put it in the shopping cart, and said in a relaxed tone, "Put it on the table to hold a pen or something. It's better than just leaving it bare."
Shi Guang looked at the vase in the shopping cart, which looked so out of place among the sunscreen and insoles, and felt his rhythm completely disrupted by the person next to him. He wanted to refuse, to take it out, but Lu Yu had already pushed the cart forward, muttering, "Kettle, I have to buy a big kettle."
Finally, the four of them met at the cashier. Jiang Xiaopang's cart was filled with potato chips, cola, and self-heating hot pot. Sun Rui's cart contained two bars of sulfur soap and a dozen identical socks.
In addition to daily necessities, there is also a conspicuous small ceramic vase in Shi Guang's car.
Lu Yu rushed ahead of everyone else and took out his phone: "Don't move, I'll do it! Let's celebrate the official formation of our 602 group!"
"Brother Lu is so generous!" Fat Jiang cheered.
"I'll transfer my part of the money to you." Sun Rui started pressing the calculator.
Shi Guang immediately took out his mobile phone from his pocket, pursed his lips, and prepared to scan the code with a serious face.
"Hey, I already said it's my treat." Lu Yu was quick-witted and quick-handed. Before Shi Guang unlocked the system, he aimed his payment code at the barcode scanner. With a "beep", the payment was successful.
He raised his eyebrows at Shi Guang, who looked stunned, and said with a smile, "You treat next time."
Back in the dormitory, everyone sorted out their spoils.
Shi Guang unpacked the ceramic vase, wiped it clean with a soft cloth, and then gently placed it in the upper left corner of his desk, the spot he had chosen since his first day.
The empty vase stood there quietly, as if in an instant, it gave the cold desk the warmth and soul of its owner.
Lu Yu leaned back in his chair, pretending to play with his phone, but his eyes never left that place. When he saw the small vase placed safely on the table, he felt an inexplicable sense of satisfaction.
He unlocked his phone and clicked on Jiang Da's confession wall as usual.
As expected, a new candid photo has become popular.
The background of the photo is a supermarket shelf. In the photo, Lu Yu is leaning slightly closer to Shi Guang, seemingly whispering something to him. Shi Guang's figure is mostly blocked, and only his white neck and slightly red ears can be seen.
[Subject: I declare this couple is real! Supermarket shopping is so sweet!]
Comments:
"Ahhh what kind of idol drama plot is this! Are you picking things for him?"
"With this height difference and this size difference, I'm going to die right here!"
"Did anyone notice the details of the shopping cart? I think I saw a high-factor sunscreen spray for girls!"
“So who are you buying this for? [dog head]”
"The guy upstairs, guess if that's the cool, handsome guy from the Cultural Heritage College?"
Lu Yu was watching with great interest and was about to share this grand spectacle of everyone enjoying the show with the people around him, but he saw Shi Guang had already taken out his change of clothes and walked into the dormitory bathroom without saying a word.
The bathroom door closed with a click, and soon the sound of running water could be heard from inside.
The opportunity has come!
Lu Yu immediately turned around in his chair, lowered his voice, and said to Jiang Xiaopang and Sun Rui, who were sitting across from him, like an underground party member, "Quick, quick, check out the confession wall. We're trending again!"
Jiang Xiaopang's reaction speed was faster than 5G. He clicked on the link instantly. When he saw the atmospheric candid photo and the comments below, he let out an exaggerated gasp.
"Holy crap! Brother Lu, you two are progressing so fast! It's almost as fast as the official announcement!" He said as he quickly forwarded the dynamic link directly to the "602's Bizarre Adventure" WeChat group.
Jiang Xiaopang: @All members and family, the material is here! Come and watch Brother Lu and Shi Guang's sweet daily life!
It was too late for Lu Yu to stop it. He held his forehead and thought helplessly, "Oh no! When Shi Guang comes out of the shower and sees this, I wonder what his reaction will be."
Sure enough, within two minutes, Lu Yu's phone vibrated.
He looked down and his pupils trembled.
【Shi Guang left the group chat.】
That line of gray system prompts lay alone in the center of the chat interface, and the entire dormitory was dead silent.
The smile on Lu Yu's face froze.
He stared at the line of words for three full seconds, his mind going blank.
What's going on?
[Can I quit the group while taking a shower? ]
Is it because of the link Jiang Xiaopang sent? Or is it because of the secretly taken supermarket photo?
[That's not the case, buddy. Are you so mentally fragile?]
Before he could recover from his shock, Fatty Jiang across from him also saw it and let out an earth-shattering wail: "Holy crap! Gaolingzhihua has left the group! Did he actually take his phone into the shower?!"
This shout successfully attracted the attention of Sun Rui, who was wrapping his book in a book cover.
"Based on the available information, there is a high causal correlation between Shiguang's withdrawal from the group and the link Jiang Xiaopang just shared in the group. The link involved involuntary exposure of a person's image and entertaining interpretation, which may have crossed Shiguang's social safety boundaries."
"Speak human language!" Jiang Xiaopang and Lu Yu said in unison.
"Ahem...what I mean is," Sun Rui said succinctly, "he has social anxiety, and you two scared him away."
Lu Yu: “…”
He was angry, amused, and a little inexplicably wronged at the same time. He felt that he was more wronged than Dou E. It was clearly Jiang Xiaopang who forwarded the link, so how could he be the culprit who "scared away" his roommate?
Just then, the bathroom door opened with a click.
Time walked out of it.
He had already changed into his pajamas, his hair damp, water droplets dripping down the ends onto his fair collarbone. He seemed completely oblivious to the strange and tense atmosphere between the three grown men in the dormitory, and walked straight to his seat, ready to climb into bed.
Everyone's eyes were focused on him like a searchlight.
"Ahem." Lu Yu cleared his throat and decided to take the initiative. He stood up and walked to Shi Guang's desk, trying to make his tone sound like a harmless joke.
"Um... Shi Guang, did you slip up? Why did you log out of the dormitory group?"
Shi Guang paused as he climbed up the ladder. He turned around and looked at Lu Yu. His eyes, always clear and cold, were now devoid of emotion. He simply replied calmly:
“No slip of the hand.”
"Then why?" Lu Yu pressed on. He felt he had to get to the bottom of this.
Shi Guang was silent for a moment, as if trying to organize his words. Then, he slowly spoke, word by word:
"I don't like excessive attention or participating in meaningless discussions."
After saying that, he stopped looking at Lu Yu and climbed onto the bed swiftly.
Lu Yu stood there, completely petrified.
"A meaningless discussion?" he muttered to himself. "Just because we gossip, it becomes a meaningless discussion?"
Fat Jiang on the other side looked at him with sympathy. "Brother Lu, I'm sorry. It seems your Little Sun Warmth Project died before it even began. In other people's eyes, you're just a synonym for boredom."
"Shut up!" Lu Yu retorted angrily.
He scratched his hair irritably and sat back in his chair, feeling overwhelmed. This was the first time in his life that he had suffered such a disastrous defeat in a social setting.
Just as he was struggling, his cell phone vibrated.
It was a friend request from Sun Rui.
After Lu Yu passed, Sun Rui immediately sent a message:
According to game theory, the optimal solution at this point is to simply ignore the situation. Overreacting will only reinforce the other person's negative emotions. It's recommended to suspend all proactive social interactions and wait for the situation to cool down naturally.
Lu Yu looked at this suggestion full of rationality and felt at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
He looked up at the tightly closed bed curtain, and for the first time, he felt a little uncertain about the strategy to conquer this iceberg.
This guy is just a stubborn person.
He sighed, clicked on the dormitory group that only had three people and seemed particularly deserted, and silently changed his group nickname from 602 Good-looking to 602 I am also very tired today.
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